An Act to Provide for the
Establishment of a New School District in Chester and Fairfield
Counties, to be Known as Blackstock School District, and to Authorize
the Levy and Collection of a Local Tax Therein.

February 9, 1882

Acts and Joint Resolutions
of the General Assembly of South Carolina 1881-1882, Pages 1045-1047.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That for the purpose
of maintaining one or more graded public schools in the town
of Blackstock, the County Commissioners of the Counties of Chester
and Fairfield be, and they are hereby, authorized and required
to lay off a new School District, to be known as Blackstock School
District, said District to have the depot of the Charlotte, Columbia,
and Augusta Railroad Company at Blackstock for its centre, and
to extend two (2) miles to the north, and two (2) miles to the
south thereof, and three (3) miles to the east, and three (3)
miles to the west thereof, so as to form a square.

SEC. 2. The said School District shall be, and is hereby,
created a body politic and corporate, with such government, rights,
privileges, and liabilities, as other School Districts under
the Act approved 22 March, 1878.

SEC. 3. The said School District is also hereby authorized
and empowered to levy on all real and personal property returned
in said District, a local tax not exceeding two mills on the
dollar to supplement the constitutional tax for support of said
schools by the persons, in the mode following. to wit: The School
Trustees of said District may, on or before the 15th day of April
next, and again on or before the 1st of October, 1882, and on
or before the last named day of each succeeding year, call a
meeting of all the legal voters living in said District and returning
real and personal property therein; that a notice of said meeting
specifying the time place and object thereof, shall be posted
in five public places in the School District at least fifteen
days before the said meeting. The persons answering the above
designation, when thus assembled, shall appoint a chairman and
secretary, adjourn from time to time, decide what additional
tax, if any, shall be levied, and appropriate the same in such
manner as they may think best for maintaining said schools. No
tax thus levied shall be repealed at a subsequent meeting held
within the same fiscal year. The Chairman of the meeting shall,
within one week thereafter, notify the Chairman of the Board
of Trustees and the County Auditors of the said Counties of Chester
and Fairfield of the amount of the tax thus levied and how it
has been appropriated, and the Auditors of said Counties shall
at once assess such tax on all real and personal property in
their respective Counties returned in said District, and the
County Treasurers of said Counties shall collect the same with
the State and County tax, and it shall be a lien on all property
till paid, and defaulting tax-payers shall be liable to like
process and penalties as defaulters for State and County taxes.
The money collected from said tax levy shall be paid out by the
said County Treasurers for purpoes to which it has been appropriated
on warrants drawn by the Trustees of said District, countersigned
by the County School Commissioners of their respective Counties,
and said Treasurers shall be liable to said School District for
non-performance of their duty in respect to said moneys in the
same manner, and under like penalties, as for non-performance
of their duty in reference to State and County taxes. The first
assessment under this Act may be for the scholastic year beginning
on 1st November, 1881.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from the date of its passage,
and all Acts inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed.

In the Senate House, the ninth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.

John D. Kennedy, President of the Senate.
John C. Sheppard, Speaker of the House of Representatives.